Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Erdmann Spiecker

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Chair of Micro- and Nanostructure Research

Raum 01.154
Cauerstraße 3
91058 Erlangen

Ameslon, Y., Ronsin, O.J., Harreiß, C., Will, J., Rechberger, S., Wu, M.,... Harting, J. (2024). Phase field simulations of thermal annealing for all-small molecule organic solar cells. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cp03486d
Bezold, A., Vollhüter, J., Karpstein, N., Lenz, M., Subramanyam, A.P., Zenk, C.,... Neumeier, S. (2024). Segregation-induced strength anomalies in complex single-crystalline superalloys. Communications Materials, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00447-x
Carl, S., Will, J., Madubuko, N., Götz, A., Przybilla, T., Wu, M.,... Spiecker, E. (2024). Structural Evolution of GaOx-Shell and Intermetallic Phases in Ga-Pt Supported Catalytically Active Liquid Metal Solutions. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 4711-4720. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03494
Chakraborty, S., Wong, G.K.L., Oda, F., Wachter, V., Kusminskiy, S.V., Yokosawa, T.,... Joly, N. (2024). Levitating the future: light, magnet, and fiber unite. In Proceedings Volume PC12991, Nanophotonics X. Strasbourg, FR.
Danisman, B., Zhang, G.R., Baumunk, A.F., Yang, J., Brummel, O., Darge, P.,... Etzold, B.J. (2024). Increasing Activity of Trimetallic Oxygen Reduction PtNiMo/C Catalysts Through Initial Conditioning. ChemElectroChem. https://doi.org/10.1002/celc.202400070
Denninger, P., Schweizer, P., & Spiecker, E. (2024). Characterization of extended defects in 2D materials using aperture-based dark-field STEM in SEM. Micron, 186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2024.103703
Dierner, M., Will, J., Landes, M., Volland, C., Branscheid, R., Zech, T.,... Spiecker, E. (2024). Influence of Au alloying on solid state dewetting kinetics and texture evolution of Ag and Ni thin films. Surfaces and Interfaces, 46, 104008. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2024.104008
Gromotka, L., Biegel, M., Damm, C., Traore, N., Drobek, D., Spiecker, E., & Peukert, W. (2024). Combined continuous nanoparticle synthesis with chromatographic size classification. Advanced Powder Technology, 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2023.104294
Groppe, P., Reichstein, J., Carl, S., Cuadrado Collados, C., Niebuur, B.J., Zhang, K.,... Mandel, K. (2024). Catalyst Supraparticles: Tuning the Structure of Spray-Dried Pt/SiO2 Supraparticles via Salt-Based Colloidal Manipulation to Control their Catalytic Performance. Small. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202310813
Götz, K., Prihoda, A., Shen, C., Dierner, M., Dallmann, J., Prusch, S.,... Unruh, T. (2024). Nucleation Behavior of SnS2 on Thiol Functionalized SAMs During Solution-Based Atomic Layer Deposition. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 11(26). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300990
Harsha, S., Sharma, R.K., Dierner, M., Baeumer, C., Makhotkin, I., Mul, G.,... Altomare, M. (2024). Dewetting of Pt Nanoparticles Boosts Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Due to Electronic Metal-Support Interaction. Advanced Functional Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202403628
Hoffmeister, D., Finger, S., Fiedler, L., Ma, T.C., Körner, A., Zlatar, M.,... van Pham, C. (2024). Photodeposition-Based Synthesis of TiO2@IrOx Core–Shell Catalyst for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis with Low Iridium Loading. Advanced Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202402991
Hu, H., Fehn, D., Barr, M., Harreiß, C., Zhao, Y., Meyer, K.,... Brabec, C. (2024). Erratum: Correction to "Enhanced Photostability of Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals with Mn3+ Incorporation" (ACS applied materials & interfaces (2024) 16 14 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c03356.). ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 16(18), 24145-. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c06653
Jimenez Sanchez, M.A., Carl, S., Taccardi, N., Haumann, M., Apeleo Zubiri, B., Wasserscheid, P.,... Magnabosco, G. (2024). Better Together: Synergic Effect of Gallium‐Based Catalyst and Porous Support for Reduction Reactions. ChemCatChem. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202401429
Karpstein, N., Lenz, M., Bezold, A., Zehl, R., Wu, M., Ludwig, A.,... Spiecker, E. (2024). Unambiguous Stacking Fault Analysis for Unraveling Shearing Mechanisms and Shear-Based Transformations in the L12-Ordered γ′ Phase. In Jonathan Cormier, Ian Edmonds, Stephane Forsik, Paraskevas Kontis, Corey O’Connell, Timothy Smith, Akane Suzuki, Sammy Tin, Jian Zhang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Superalloys (pp. 44-52). Champion, PA, USA, US: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Karpstein, N., Wu, M., Bezold, A., Neumeier, S., Cormier, J., & Spiecker, E. (2024). Temperature and Time Dependence of Elemental Segregation at Stacking Faults in Ni- and Co-Base Superalloys. In Jonathan Cormier, Ian Edmonds, Stephane Forsik, Paraskevas Kontis, Corey O’Connell, Timothy Smith, Akane Suzuki, Sammy Tin, Jian Zhang (Eds.), Minerals, Metals and Materials Series (pp. 502-511). Champion, PA, USA, US: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Kreuz, S., Apeleo Zubiri, B., Englisch, S., Buwen, M., Kang, S.G., Ramachandramoorthy, R.,... Rolfes, J. (2024). Improving reconstructions in nanotomography for homogeneous materials via mathematical optimization. Nanoscale Advances. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3na01089a
Luo, J., Liu, B., Yin, H., Zhou, X., Wu, M., Shi, H.,... Zhao, Y. (2024). Correction to: Polymer-acid-metal quasi-ohmic contact for stable perovskite solar cells beyond a 20,000-hour extrapolated lifetime (Nature Communications, (2024), 15, 1, (2002), 10.1038/s41467-024-46145-7). Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46688-9
Luo, J., Liu, B., Yin, H., Zhou, X., Wu, M., Shi, H.,... Zhao, Y. (2024). Polymer-acid-metal quasi-ohmic contact for stable perovskite solar cells beyond a 20,000-hour extrapolated lifetime. Nature Communications, 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46145-7
Madubuko, N., Sultan, U., Carl, S., Lehmann, D., Zhou, X., Soegaard, A.,... Wasserscheid, P. (2024). Controlled Nanopore Sizes in Supraparticle Supports for Enhanced Propane Dehydrogenation with GaPt SCALMS Catalysts. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(21), 24356-24367. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c03577
Seifert, J., Nees, N., Khan, H., Traore, N., Drobek, D., Peukert, W.,... Klupp Taylor, R. (2024). Continuous Flow Synthesis and Simulation-Supported Investigation of Tunable Plasmonic Gold Patchy Nanoparticles. Nanoscale. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4NR02516D
Traore, N., Berthold, M., Hartmann, L., Schmul, P., Apeleo Zubiri, B., Spiecker, E., & Peukert, W. (2024). Tailoring the Reaction Pathway for Control of Size and Composition of Silver-Gold Alloy Nanoparticles. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c00321
Vorlaufer, N., Josten, J., Carl, S., Göbel, E., Soegaard, A., Taccardi, N.,... Felfer, P. (2024). Preparation of atom probe tips from (nano)particles in dispersion using (di)electrophoresis and electroplating. Microscopy Research and Technique, 87(3), 476-483. https://doi.org/10.1002/jemt.24448
Wang, Z., Wegner, K.D., Stiegler, L., Zhou, X., Rezvani, A., Odungat, A.S.,... Segets, D. (2024). Optimizing the Shelling Process of InP/ZnS Quantum Dots Using a Single-Source Shell Precursor: Implications for Lighting and Display Applications. ACS Applied Nano Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c05265
Yadav, S., Birajdar, B.I., Kraschewski, S., Apeleo Zubiri, B., Antesberger, T., Stutzmann, M., & Spiecker, E. (2024). Silver-induced layer exchange and crystallization of a-Si films investigated using in situ scanning transmission electron microscopy. Journal of Applied Physics, 136(8). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0218143
Zhou, X., Wang, Y., Denisov, N., Kim, H., Kim, J.H., Will, J.,... Schmuki, P. (2024). Pt Single Atoms Loaded on Thin-Layer TiO2 Electrodes: Electrochemical and Photocatalytic Features. Small. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202404064

Ahmad, R., Saddiqi, N.-u.-H., Wu, M., Prato, M., Spiecker, E., Peukert, W., & Distaso, M. (2020). Effect of the Counteranion on the Formation Pathway of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) Nanoparticles under Solvothermal Conditions. Inorganic Chemistry, 59(3), 1973-1984. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03338
Anaya-Plaza, E., Joseph, J., Bauroth, S., Wagner, M., Dolle, C., Sekita, M.,... Torres, T. (2020). Synergie von elektrostatischen und π-π-Wechselwirkungen für die Verwirklichung von künstlichen photosynthetischen Modellsystemen auf Nano-Ebene. Angewandte Chemie. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202006014
Anaya-Plaza, E., Joseph, J., Bauroth, S., Wagner, M., Dolle, C., Sekita, M.,... Torres, T. (2020). Synergy of Electrostatic and π–π Interactions in the Realization of Nanoscale Artificial Photosynthetic Model Systems. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202006014
Apeleo Zubiri, B., Wirth, J., Drobek, D., Englisch, S., Przybilla, T., Weissenberger, T.,... Spiecker, E. (2020). Correlative Laboratory Nano-CT and 360° Electron Tomography of Macropore Structures in Hierarchical Zeolites. Advanced Materials Interfaces. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001154
Berlinghof, M., Langner, S., Harreiß, C., Schmidt, E., Siris, R., Bertram, F.,... Unruh, T. (2020). Crystal-structure of active layers of small molecule organic photovoltaics before and after solvent vapor annealing. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials, 235(1-2), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1515/zkri-2019-0055
Cao, Y., Wähler, T., Park, H., Will, J., Prihoda, A., Moses Badlyan, N.,... Bachmann, J. (2020). Area-Selective Growth of HfS(2)Thin Films via Atomic Layer Deposition at Low Temperature. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7(23). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001493
Cao, Y., Wähler, T., Park, H., Will, J., Prihoda, A., Moses Badlyan, N.,... Bachmann, J. (2020). Area-Selective Growth of HfS(2)Thin Films via Atomic Layer Deposition at Low Temperature. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7(23). https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001493
Chen, X., Denninger, P., Stimpel-Lindner, T., Spiecker, E., Duesberg, G.S., Backes, C.,... Hirsch, A. (2020). Defect Engineering of Two-Dimensional Molybdenum Disulfide. Chemistry - A European Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202000286
Dong, Y., Wang, Y.-K., Yuan, F., Johnston, A., Liu, Y., Ma, D.,... Sargent, E.H. (2020). Bipolar-shell resurfacing for blue LEDs based on strongly confined perovskite quantum dots. Nature Nanotechnology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0714-5
Esper, J.D., Zhuo, Y., Barr, M., Yokosawa, T., Spiecker, E., de Ligny, D.,... Romeis, S. (2020). Shape-anisotropic cobalt-germanium-borate glass flakes as novel Li-ion battery anodes. Powder Technology, 363, 218-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2019.11.063
Hagen, S., Weiser, M., Kubacka, D., Spiecker, E., & Virtanen, S. (2020). On the High-Temperature Oxidation Behavior of a Ta-Containing Quaternary Co-Base Model Alloy System with γ/γ′-Microstructure - Influence of γ′-Volume Fraction, Surface State, and Heating Condition on Alumina Growth. Oxidation of Metals. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11085-020-10003-w
Kizaloğlu Akbulut, M., Harreiß, C., Löffler, M., Mayrhofer, K.J., Schöbitz, M., Bachmann, J.,... Kryschi, C. (2020). Facile one‑pot synthesis of water‑soluble fcc FePt3 alloy nanostructures. SN Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-03544-x
Kubacka, D., Eggeler, Y., Volz, N., Neumeier, S., & Spiecker, E. (2020). Using Rapid Thermal Annealing for Studying Early Stages of High-Temperature Oxidation of Superalloys. In Tin S, Hardy M, Clews J, Cormier J, Feng Q, Marcin J, O'Brien C, Suzuki A (Eds.), (pp. 763-770-770). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Lenz, M., Wu, M., He, J., Makineni, S.K., Gault, B., Raabe, D.,... Spiecker, E. (2020). Atomic Structure and Chemical Composition of Planar Fault Structures in Co-Base Superalloys. In Sammy Tin, Mark Hardy, Justin Clews, Jonathan Cormier, Qiang Feng, John Marcin, Chris O'Brien, Akane Suzuki (Eds.), Minerals, Metals and Materials Series (pp. 920-928). Seven Springs, PA, US: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
Lenz, M., Wu, M., & Spiecker, E. (2020). Segregation-assisted climb of Frank partial dislocations: An alternative route to superintrinsic stacking faults in L12-hardened superalloys. Acta Materialia, 191(1), 270-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2020.03.056
Lin, W., Greve, C., Härtner, S., Götz, K., Walter, J., Wu, M.,... Segets, D. (2020). Unraveling Complexity: A Strategy for the Characterization of Anisotropic Core Multishell Nanoparticles. Particle & Particle Systems Characterization. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppsc.202000145
Liu, N., Mohajernia, S., Nguyen, N.T., Hejazi, S., Plass, F., Kahnt, A.,... Schmuki, P. (2020). Long-Living Holes in Grey Anatase TiO2 Enable Noble-Metal-Free and Sacrificial-Agent-Free Water Splitting. Chemsuschem. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202001045
Menon, A., Papadopoulos, I., Harreiß, C., Mora-Fuentes, J.P., Cortizo-Lacalle, D., Mateo-Alonso, A.,... Guldi, D.M. (2020). Collecting up to 115% of Singlet-Fission Products by Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes. Acs Nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c03668
Rechberger, S., Gasparini, N., Singh, R., Kim, M., Chochos, C.L., Gregoriou, V.G.,... Spiecker, E. (2020). Unraveling the Complex Nanomorphology of Ternary Organic Solar Cells with Multimodal Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy. Solar RRL. https://doi.org/10.1002/solr.202000114
Rejek, T., Schweizer, P., Joch, D., Portilla, L., Spiecker, E., & Halik, M. (2020). Buried Microphase Separation by Dynamic Interplay of Crystallization and Microphase Separation in Semicrystalline PEO-Rich PS-b-PEO Block Copolymer Thin Films. Macromolecules, 53(13), 5604-5613. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02760
Schrenker, N., Xie, Z., Schweizer, P., Moninger, M., Werner, F., Karpstein, N.,... Spiecker, E. (2020). Microscopic Deformation Modes and Impact of Network Anisotropy on the Mechanical and Electrical Performance of Five-fold Twinned Silver Nanowire Electrodes. ACS nano. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c06480
Schweizer, P., Denninger, P., Dolle, C., & Spiecker, E. (2020). Low energy nano diffraction (LEND) – A versatile diffraction technique in SEM. Ultramicroscopy, 213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2020.112956
Schweizer, P., Dolle, C., Dasler, D., Abellán, G., Hauke, F., Hirsch, A., & Spiecker, E. (2020). Mechanical cleaning of graphene using in situ electron microscopy. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1743-. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15255-3
Sytnyk, M., Yousefi-Amin, A.A., Freund, T., Prihoda, A., Götz, K., Unruh, T.,... Heiß, W. (2020). Epitaxial Metal Halide Perovskites by Inkjet-Printing on Various Substrates. Advanced Functional Materials, 30(43). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202004612
Wierzbicka, E., Altomare, M., Wu, M., Liu, N., Yokosawa, T., Fehn, D.,... Schmuki, P. (2020). Reduced Grey Brookite for Noble Metal Free Photocatalytic H2 Evolution. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0TA09066B
Wittkämper, H., Maisel, S., Wu, M., Frisch, J., Wilks, R.G., Grabau, M.,... Papp, C. (2020). Oxidation induced restructuring of Rh-Ga SCALMS model catalyst systems. Journal of Chemical Physics, 153(10), 104702-. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0021647
Zenk, C., Volz, N., Bezold, A., Huber, L.-K., Eggeler, Y., Spiecker, E.,... Neumeier, S. (2020). The Effect of Alloying on the Thermophysical and Mechanical Properties of Co–Ti–Cr-Based Superalloys. In Tin S, Hardy M, Clews J, Cormier J, Feng Q, Marcin J, O'Brien C, Suzuki A (Eds.), (pp. 909-919-919). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Zhao, Y., Miao, P., Elia, J., Hu, H., Wang, X., Heumüller, T.,... Brabec, C. (2020). Strain-activated light-induced halide segregation in mixed-halide perovskite solids. Nature Communications, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20066-7

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